Eat Your Spinach
In keeping with my track record of deadly accurate five-minute reviews, here’s what I think of the SOTU: It’s a missed opportunity.
Rather than giving the people what they want, the president has adopted an eat-your-spinach approach. While that’ll make the goo-goo types happy, it does nothing to improve the GOP’s political fortunes. Sure, there may be a small post-SOTU poll bounce; there will always be one. But it could have been so much bigger!
Imagine how different today could have been if the president had chosen to bludgeon Democrats with a winning issue, like, say illegal immigration. Sigh.
UPDATE: “Earmark reform?” “Line item veto?” Joe Lunchpail is changing channels. Sigh.
— PoliPundit